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There are pictures, as well as facts, that speak for themselves; and a reproduction of New England seacoast 
scenery must always be sufficiently eloquent in its own behalf to need no printed eulogium. To treat of the sea- 
shore of New England, in its accepted sense, is to refer to that portion of our many-harbored coast lying east and 
north of Boston. Thither it is that eager thousands of city-enslaved lovers of old ocean betake their happy way 
when the long-awaited signal to cease work and worry has come ; and in no section of this Eastern coast line do a 
greater number of them tarry than in that comprised between Nahant and Portland. 

Here is the favorite and favored portion of New England's seashore. Here are the changing moods of Nature 
worthy at one moment the rugged description of a Kipling, and at the next the tender and spiritual treatment of a 
Celia Thaxter. It is a beautiful, romantic stretch of coast line, this nearer section of New England's seashore. 
Wealth and refinement have pre-empted it in spots, but men are not living today who will see it aught than a 
great, free pleasure-ground for all who care to come. 

Here blow the cool, invigorating, bronzing breezes from the great .\rctic current sweeping down through the 
Gulf of Maine; here glide the white-winged pleasure fleets of a prosperous, sea-loving nation ; here stately coasting 
vessels come and go, bearing their varied contributions to the marts of America ; and here, upon favoring slants of 
wind, slip in and out the "captains courageous" of picturesque Gloucester. 

The quaintness of surf-bound Marblehead, the rugged loveliness of Cape Ann, the singing sands of Manchester, 
the long and friendly stretches of white beach at Hampton, Rye, York and Old Orchard,— all these blend harmoni- 
ously one with the other and join, with the poetic Isles of Shoals, in a cordial welcome to the brain-weary and 
the invalid. 

And then there are the lovely rivers and inlets, like the Merrimack and the Kennebunk, where those upon 
whom the more robust qualities of the ocean may pall are always able to find a placid and peaceful scenery, and 
where the canoeist is in his glory. At the more populous resorts the most restless mortal need not suffer for lack 
of amusement. Old Orchard, for instance, with its magniBcent surf bathing, its kaleidoscopic social life, and its 
camp-meetings, is a veritable New England Brighton. 

Portland, though a city, is none the le.ss a favorite summer resort, many hundreds of people spending their 
vacations, year after year, among the beautiful islands with which its famous harbor is gemmed. 

.Altogether, in few parts of the world could so great a diversity of scenery and so uniformly interesting a 
sequence of seacoast communities be found as that which marks this one hundred mile stretch of Boston & Maine 
Railroad track. 




GROVER'S CLltK, FKUM BEACHMONT, MASSACHUSETTS. 




MARIiLEHEAl) NKCK, MASSAC H U SLTTS. 




Ui KKK.s WHARF, MARBLEHEAU, MASSACHUSETTS 




THE HAWK AND MOPSA, MARBLEHEAD HARBOR, MASSACHUSETTS. 




SURF AT MARBLEIIEAU NECK, M ASSArilLSETTS. 



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SlNC;iNG liEACIl, MANCHESTER, M ASSAt; HUSETTS. 




NORMAN'S WOE, FROM MAGNOLIA, .MASSACHUSETTS. 




A GLOUCESTl'.l; lIMIKkMAX 




GLOUCESTER HARBOR, MASSACHUSETTS. 




THE WILLOWS, EASTERN POINT, MASSACHUSETTS. 




EASTERN POINT LIGHT, MASSACHUSETTS. 



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IPSWICH BLUFF. MASSACHUSETTS. 




CROSS ISLAND, MOUTH oF ESSEX RIVER, MASSAC UL SETTS. 




OFF NEWBUKVroKT, MASSACHUSETTS. 




PLUM ISLAND MARSHES, MASSACHUSETTS. 




SALISBURY BEACH, MASSACHUSETTS. 




HAiMPTON BEACH, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 




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IIAMPT(JN BEACH, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 




ISLES OF SHOALS, FROM OCEANIC ISLAND, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 




l;AriiKkS AT \()RK HEACIl, MAINK 




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CUNCUKDVILLE POINT, YORK BEACH, MAINE. 




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KENNEBUNK BEACH, MAINE. 



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SUKK AND BATUEKS, ULl) UKCUAKD lihALlI, MAINK. 




OLD ORCHARD BKACH, MAINE. 




PORTLAND HEAD LIGHT, TORI LAM i, ALVINE. 



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